SGU CANCELLED!
- Thread starter TheInsideMan
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Nope. They hit their ceiling there. That's why the changes.
People watch it. Game, set, match.
I guess it's easy to blame SyFy but SGU deserved to be cancelled unfortunately. The show was boring and cluttered with poor characters portrayed by poor actors. I've grown so weary of the arc based storytelling. What's wrong with a new adventure every week? Especially when you're on a spaceship supposedly going to a new planet every week. We really got to see nothing of the universe, just a small handful of empty planets. So much potential and so little done with it.
And if one night of wrasslin or pretending to see ghosts pays for a new sci-fi show, I'm fine with it.
And if one night of wrasslin or pretending to see ghosts pays for a new sci-fi show, I'm fine with it.
That's the universe for you.
Saquist
Commodore
The Cancellation is far bigger news that the series popularity.
SGU SUCKS has made quite the effort at discrediting the show and frankly it's done a good job discrediting itself.
That's the universe for you.
Lesson learned: realism is boring. If I want realism, I'll live my life. If I sit down and watch a sci-fi TV show, I want to be entertained with fiction, not bored with realism.
Two dimensional space battles against English-speaking aliens. Anyone remember the fun of that?
That's the universe for you.
Lesson learned: realism is boring. If I want realism, I'll live my life. If I sit down and watch a sci-fi TV show, I want to be entertained with fiction, not bored with realism.
Two dimensional space battles against English-speaking aliens. Anyone remember the fun of that?
Realism would be fine, but every planet being the same desert or the same forest all over again isn't realistic.
Travel to many Alien worlds do you ?
I get what you mean I just couldn't resist myself
I guess it all comes to down budget and really with no alien life like Humans on a planet then the natural order would remain so forests/jungles and deserts. Need people to make cities and towns and advanced people to make what Earth looks like. SGU seemed to want less aliens and more focus on the characters and the ship, which begs the question why the name Stargate I guess.
Haha, yeah. It wasn't hard to notice, of course, since I've been active in the forum since I returned to the board.You noticed that, too!
It would be nice to think that consumers always want quality, but just as often, they want cheap crap at a low price. Some brands do very well with cheap crap at a low price. The trick to brand growth to understand your brand and what it means to your current customer base. Then plan to grow it by expanding the meaning incrementally and sensibly, with the goal of either selling new products to current customers, or expanding the customers for your brand, or both.
History Channel doing logging shows isn't any sort of brand strategy. It's just opportunism, grabbing at ratings wherever they can find them. That's fine for a short-term goal but long-term, they're destroying the meaning of their brand. They're not thinking about the future at all. Short-term thinking (just make the next quarter!) is the bane of American business.
Wow, what a sophisticated brand-strategy analysis!
Don't quit your day job.
It might be more interesting if the planets in question didn't look like the same old pine forests. ENT made the mistake of thinking that taking the audience to "alien worlds" every week would be inherently interesting. But if they're the same types of aliens we've seen before, with the same problems, trotting through the tenth iteration of the same old story, then no alien world is going to be interesting.
Yeah! I have a hunch that a return to a relatively unsophisticated type of space opera might be a big ratings hit (by skiffy standards) right about now. Just down and dirty, us-vs-them, video game style mayhem on a weekly basis. No whining and crying about "whether humanity deserves to live" boo fucking hoo. Just shut up and fight. That's why I'm betting on the success of Blood & Chrome.
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ReadyAndWilling
Fleet Captain
wait so the finale has already been filmed?
has brad wright commented on the cancellation?
has brad wright commented on the cancellation?
Commented on what? Why are you so obsessed with what Brad Wright has to say about everything?
Saquist
Commodore
That's the universe for you.
Lesson learned: realism is boring. If I want realism, I'll live my life. If I sit down and watch a sci-fi TV show, I want to be entertained with fiction, not bored with realism.
Two dimensional space battles against English-speaking aliens. Anyone remember the fun of that?
Realism would be fine, but every planet being the same desert or the same forest all over again isn't realistic.
Way too literal.
No, he hasn't stopped crying yet.
^^ In some early SG-1 episodes they still had the decency to use color filters to make it look different.
I'm usually not a glass is half empty type of person, but I agree that it's unlikely that B&C will become a series, or, if it does, that it'll last long.
I loved nuBSG but there were some problems in its implementation (too soapy for portions) and it lost viewers over its fairly short run. Never saw Caprica but apparently it didn't attract enough people to keep it alive. So, there's not a good track record. Typically, the ratings for each successive series is lower than the previous, unless there is a long gap. It's hard to imagine that B&C will pull in enough viewers to justify the cost.
I hope I'm wrong. If they do a great job they may well be able to fight against this historical trend.
I also think the SG franchise is dead for quite some time. The franchise is basically at the point that the ST was at after Nemesis. And, I doubt there will be a JJ to come along and rescue this franchise.
As for what type of space adventure would be best, I see Temis point about an all out action, no whiney battle sort of series. I think that might get tedious after awhile. I think a movie that was like Indiana Jones in space would be great. Have the focus on adventure and discovery (with some action and fighting along the way) through a small group in a private ship. Maybe they're investigating some larger-scale mystery. There wouldn't the angst, whining, or darkness of many newer series. Again, think Indiana Jones in space for inspiration.
Mr Awe
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That sort of thing can be fun, but it can also come off as too mundane or simplistic. The improved quality and sophistication of many recent shows made quite an impression on many of us and we want to see more of that. The suggestion of a return to the formulaic action/adventure format often feels like a step backwards or as if an opportunity to make something truly great will be missed. Some shows do work well or work best with a less serious approach, I just think that the realistic approach to drama has it's place and doesn't need to be scoffed at.
And realism doesn't necessarily mean boring soapish melodrama. It can simply mean natural behavior when it comes to characters, more attention to authenticity and detail when it comes to world-building and lasting consequences. And sure, you can say that if you want realism you can just live your life, but what about those things you can't experience in real life but would like to immerse yourself in or see explored plausibly? That's where realism comes in. It can provide experiences that basic entertainment can't.
